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Originally Posted by sendler
Most studies ascribe a 2:1 efficiency increase when replacing all ICE and thermal machines and processes with electric. Of course they never get into how to go about replacing or retrofitting the world's $100 trillion in built out infrastructure. Or storing and transporting all of this electricity to make it useful. And even if we could do all of this it will still leave an 8 TeraWatt average consumption to try to supply.
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Only in the context of a hands-off-the-energy-load scenario, could I agree with the appraisal.There's massive amounts of waste associated with this consumption.
If you put Spaceship Earth in a post-cryo-stir Apollo-13 scenario,you'll have the Flight Directors throwing circuit breaker after circuit breaker until they can get the electrical load down to mission critical minimums.It ain't pretty,but it gets the job done until you're out of harms way.